The White House and Pentagon are limiting press access by veteran reporters, favoring small right-wing media outlets over the Associated Press and legacy outlets that serve much larger audiences, and dishing out insults instead of answering questions.
Colorado is one of nine states offering public school students free breakfast and lunch. Focus on the Family hopes the state’s citizens will vote today to eliminate the program.
Children and former associates of James Dobson honored the “pro-family” leader at an Oct. 4 memorial service in Denver that highlighted his roles as a father and man of deep faith rather than his political activism.
William J. Schultz’s Jesus Springs: Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate of an American City tells a story that “brings together conservative religion, conservative politics, laissez-faire economics and the role of the military,” said Schultz, an assistant professor of American religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
Focus, a 48-year-old mass media ministry, has long claimed the U.S. was founded as a Christian nation. Truth Rising makes similar origin claims of Western civilization but says the West’s spiritual foundations are now threatened by attacks on human dignity as created in the image of God.
James Dobson, the Focus on the Family founder who turned “family values” into a household phrase and political rallying cry, died Thursday morning at age 89. The James Dobson Family Institute (JDFI) announced his death in an early morning email that said he had died “peacefully, following a brief illness.”
Broadcasts from the James Dobson Family Institute, the ministry Dobson founded after leaving Focus on the Family in 2010, offer listeners doom and gloom.
Pentecostal pastors laying hands on the president in the Oval Office. Prayers to open cabinet meetings. Hymn sings in the Roosevelt Room. Cross necklaces as faith-forward fashion statements. A prayer meeting at the Pentagon.
Focus and the activist groups it founded are celebrating more than court victories. Conservatives are sensing a shift in public attitudes as some corporations, law firms, nonprofits and Democratic leaders back away from their earlier support for LGBTQ issues.
“I have stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America,” President Donald Trump told Congress in March. “It’s back.”
